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  • POETRY Reading: Lost Spring of Love, ...

    Performed by Val Cole

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    POEM:

    Is it better never to have loved at all
    Than to have loved and lost in sorrow’s pain,
    When love departs on flights to be enthralled
    With pleasures of youthful spring again.

    That temptation of Eros which beckons,
    To shed one’s age and cast love’s old clothes;
    An...

  • POETRY Reading: Admiral’s Log: 1242, ...

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    We’d been sailing for months when the isle sprang to view,
    grassy it was, and forlorn for sure.
    Charts said nothing
    of its being here.

    We moored near the isle
    where I set forth a search,
    myself in the lead
    of course.

    Now I must tell you:

    As we crossed from the s...

  • READ POEM: ED by Joshua Walker

    Performed by Val Cole

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    POEM:

    Ed- I watch as he stumbles, a man undone,
    A poet once soaring, now falling—done.
    His words like daggers, sharp but not kind,
    A tortured soul with a fractured mind.
    “Nevermore,” he mutters, his eyes vacant, cold,
    A genius’s madness, a story retold.
    I wish I could ...